The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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A.D. 1689 —1776. 540 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM it appears that live geese were brought from the Fens to the London market in large two-horse carts, arranged with four stages, which took them a hundred miles to market in two days and a night?; and it is difficult to understand how such quantities of Scotch cattle could be driven to the Norfolk and Suffolk marshes? unless there was fairly good going. XVI. SPIRITED PROPRIETORS AND SUBSTANTIAL TENANTS. Tis Whigs 233. The fostering of industry was the fundamental ed to pro- principle in the economic policy of the Whigs; they were mote tillage chiefly concerned in trying to develop existing and to plant new manufactures. But they did not forget that agriculture was by far the most important of all English employments, and that a very large proportion of the population was engaged in tillage. The party which came into power after the Revolution was eager to promote the interests of the farmers?, and formulated a scheme, which was entirely con- sonant with accepted maxims, for achieving this result. not merely The Court Party at the Restoration had given a large 1d Thee” measure of protection to English producers of food stuffs, Dnglish English agriculturists, as well as English fishermen? were bare Joris secured by prohibitive tariffs against colonial competition in the home market. But this did not satisfy those who were looking further afield, with the view of not only meeting the requirements of their countrymen, but of catering for foreign consumers as well’. In 1663 the condi- tions as to time and price, on which the export of corn was permitted, were relaxed’; and an attempt was made by the Whigs to remove the export duty in 1677. This would have meant a reduction of royal revenue, and it was resisted by the 1 Defoe’s Tour, 1. 54. 2 Ib. 1. 63. 8 Colbert recognised the desirability of taking this course, but he did not pursue it systematically, Clément, Histoire de Colbert, 1. 365, m. 49. 4 High rates were levied on the importation of corn by 12 C. IL. e. 4 and 22 C. II. ¢. 13, An Act for the Improvement of Tillage and the Breed of Cattle. 512 C. IT. c. 18, § 5. 8 Davenant, Works, v. 424. 115 C. II. ¢. 7. Steps had been taken to give more scope for the export of cereals and other agricultural produce under Cromwell. Calendar 8. P. D. 1656-17, p. 174; Whitelock. Memorials, 1v. 282.

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